Acknowledgments; Introduction; I. Registers of History; II. Reading Cultural Texts; III. Fashion, Cinema, and Other Orders; IV. Toward a Transcultural Dialogue; Contributors; Index
Summary
What does it mean to be a woman today in Italy, a country with the lowest birthrate in the world and the heaviest maternal stereotype? Does being a feminist exclude practices of cultural femininity? These questions are at the center of this volume, which looks at how feminism and femininity are embedded in a broad spectrum of Italian cultural practices
